Awards were given to twelve deserving members of the district Tuesday from the Warren County Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers Cultural Arts/Exhibit Day at the Warren County Extension Service office.
The winners will be going to the State Fair in October.
Ardiss Marshall, president of the group said the exhibit happens once a year and is open to members as well as the public.
There are four clubs, Marshall said, and they meet once a month.
She said at the meetings, they have many different projects.
“We have hands-on workshops and next week we will have a council meeting where a speaker will come and talk about what to do in a disaster,” she said.
The Best of Show winner was Julia Blake who won with a hand-knit sweater.
This is Blake’s second year to win the award.
“Last year’s sweater I designed. It was my first design. This year’s was someone else’s design,” Blake said.
She said the pattern came in six or eight different sizes.
“I chose the size that I like to wear,” she said.
Blake said while she is not a member, her grandmother, Margaret Carlson is a longtime member.
Carlson is the one that taught her to knit as a child.
“My grandmother taught me as a child when I was 6 or 7, but I didn’t really learn how to until 2007 when I met a friend who was also in to it,” she said.
They started a knitting club that met at the Hwy 61 Coffee Shop.
“It kind of fell apart after she left town,” she said.
Blake said she would like to start another knitting club.
“It’s a lot of fun and you can share ideas and help each other if you get stuck,” she said.